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HONG KONG ISLAND GARDEN

Up, up, up you go in a cable car for a breathtaking ride to Victoria Peak. That's the highest point on Hong Kong island, off the south coast of China. From the cable-car stop, you can travel by bus...

LAKE IN THE SKY

If you were an Uru, you'd be an Indian. And you'd live on an island---but not just any kind of an island. It would be an island that you, yourself, would make of bundles of reeds. You'd float your...

What’s cooking?

In China, Wang Kow watches his mother make dinner. She pours some peanut oil into a big, round, metal bowl called a wok. The wok sits on top of a small charcoal stove. As the oil gets hot, it begins...

Meet the mollusks

Snails belong to a group of animals called mollusks. Mollusks have soft bodies with no bones. Some mollusks such as snails, clams, oysters, and scallops have outer shells for protection. Slugs,...

It’s an Amphibian

The European green toad is an amphibian. Did you ever see a big, fat frog? A frog is one of the animals that lives in water when it is a baby and on land when it grows up. We call these animals...